The bottom line is that proportional voting systems represent women
better. They are not perfect; as there are still no countries
where
women’s representation has reached 50%. Nonetheless, countries
that use proportional voting systems have twice the representation of
women as
countries that use winner-take-all. Why is this so? When parties
nominate candidates for multi-seat districts, they are
more likely to nominate women in their slate. If a party ran a
slate of all male
candidates, it would look alarmingly sexist. In contrast, parties
often perceive incentives in nominating men for single seat
districts, where they can only choose one candidate.